THE DWELLING PROCESS IN BOGOTÁ

Case study Ciudad Bachué, Modes of habitation and physical-spatial needs.

Abstract

The modern movement contributed in the realization of urban plans for the main cities of Colombia; in Bogotá, the Ciudad Bachué urbanization was one of those projects executed in the 70ˋs. Housing development was in charge of the government during the 20th century, through the Banco Central Hipotecario (BCH) and the Instituto de Crédito Territorial (ICT) for popular strata. Ciudad Bachué was the first and only urban experiment in progressive development multifamily housing carried out by the ICT in its history, the second floors were incomplete duplexes, the third floor, row units with the possibility of expansion to a fourth level, but due to the absence of regulations, the inhabitants continued the self-construction of six or more floors in height, recalling processes of informal progressive development and productive housing, by the need to get rent from it, and that to date have not been academically recorded.